Circular clothesline for windows



Feb. 2l, 1950 s. zlNGMAN Erm.

CIRCULAR CLOTHESLINE FOR WINDOWS 3 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Feb. 25, 1946 S. ZINYGMAN ETAL CIRCULAR CLOTHESLINE FOR WINDOWS Feb. 21, 1950 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 23, 1946 lebl. 21,` 1950 s. zlNGMAN ET AL 2,498,518

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e ma AL/10 AYTUMY Patented Feb. 21, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CIRCULAR CLOTHESLINE FOR WINDOWS Sam Zingman and Joseph Krinick, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application February 23, 1946, Serial No. 649,651

9 Claims. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvement in a clothes line.

More specifically, the present invention proposes the construction of a rotary type clothes line and holder adapted to be mounted on the Window frame of a building.

Another object is to provide a device as aforesaid having telescopic parts whereby the rotary clothes line holder can be moved toward or away from the window frame.

A further object is to provide a device as aforesaid in which the clothes line, which is normally in horizontal position, can be swung to a vertical out of the way position when not in use so that it can lay flush with the vertical wall of the building on which it is being used.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a device constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, parts being shown in full.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 6, parts being shown in full.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line 4--4 of Fig. 1, parts being shown in full.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the device in drying position, a part of the building being shown.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a View similar to Fig. 5 of the device in a position for hanging clothes thereon.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the device in an out of the way position when not in use.

Fig. 9 is a view in perspective of a modified form of retracting device. v

Fig. 10 is a section on the line IU-I of Fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is a section on the line I I-I I of Fig. 10.

It has been customary, in the past, for apartment house dwellers and dwellers of other buildings where a ground clothes line is not available, to use a long clothes line strung between a pulley on a window frame and a pulley on a clothes pole. Such clothes lines have limited use and can only be used in apartments no higher than the height of a clothes pole. Furthermore, they can only be used where there is suiiicient space for a long line. However, in the many cases of apartments above clothes pole height, or in spaces between buildings where there is not much room, outside clothes lines have been impossible, forcing the people to dry their clothes in a bath room or other place which is inherently too small for a large wash and which leads to much discomture and embarrassment.

The device of the present invention is adapted to provide suiiicient outdoor clothes line for a normal family, and can be used in places where other types of clothes lines are entirely impractical. Moreover, it has certain advantages, such as compactness and serviceability, which makes it preferable, in any event, though other types of clothes lines could be used. For example, everyone is familiar with the trouble caused by a line slipping from a pulley on a clothes pole and getting wedged in the frame of the pulley, requiring climbing the pole to free it. Another familiar diiiculty is due to the breaking of clothes lines due to the wear when pulled continually through pulleys. The device of the present invention overcomes these and many other difficulties too numerous to name.

The device, according to the present invention, comprises an angle iron bracket I0 adapted to be secured vertically to a window frame Il of a building I2. To this angle iron are connected two horizontally spaced brackets I3 each terminating in an oriiiced boss I4.

A tube or sleeve I5 is disposed on top of the top boss I4 and journaled thereon by a pin I6 extending through an orifice in the tube and through the boss orice. The pin I6 is Dressed tightly in the boss and a cotter pin I'I in the top of the pin I6 prevents the tube from slipping off the pin I6. A set screw I8 is provided for preventing rotation of the tube about the pin I6.

A tube I9 is rotatably mounted (telescoped) in the tube I 5. A collar 20 surrounds the tube I5 over a portion of the tube I9. Collar 20 has an orifice 2| and in line therewith tube I5 has a transverse slot 22 and tube I9 has a threaded orice 23. A handle 24 passes through orifice 2I and slot 22 and is threaded into orifice 23 and has a nut 25 on its inner end in tube I9. Nut 25 merely prevents the handle from being screwed completely out of the tube I9 inadvertently. A nut 26 is secured on the handle 24 adjacent the outer face of the collar. When the handle 2li is turned to move it out of the oriiice 23, the nut 26 leaves the collar and then the tube I9 can be rotated in the tube I5. When it is turned to move it into the orifice 23, it squeezes the tube I5 between the tube i9 and the collar and locks the parts so that-rotation can not be caused. The nut 26 is a jam nut.

Tube I9 has a square orice 21 in its end in which is telescoped a square rod 2B. A guide 2S? is fastened on top of the end portion of the tube I9. Rod 28 ts tightly in orice 21 so that it can not move relative thereto.

A carriage Sil, having top and bottom rollers 3| is slidably mounted on the rod 28. A yoke 32 surrounds the carriage and depends there below, the bottom wall 33 of the .yoke being spaced from the bottom wall of the carriage. A long pull-push rod 34 is fastened to the top of the yoke and slides in the guide 29 and is used in moving the carriage along the rod 23. The rod 34 has a handle 35 at its inner end at right angles to its length for abutting the guide to prevent inadvertently pushing the carriage on the rod 28.

A bolt 36 is connected to and depends from the yoke, the head 3l of the bolt being supported on the wall 33 and the bolt stem passing through an orifice in this wall. A casing 38 is mounted on the bolt 36 and is supported on the nut 39 of the bolt. A coil spring t0 normally forces the casing and yoke apart. This casing is circular in cross section and is adapted to rotate on the bolt 36.

The casing has a side wall 6H, in which are sixv inclined holes d2, directed downwardly toward the axis of the casing. In the top wall 43 of the casing are six vertical threaded holes 4G containing set screws t5. Round bars l5 are mounted in the holes i2 and extend radially and upwardly from the casing and-are secured therein by the set screws l5 which extend into depressions in the bars. By tightening the set screws, the angle of inclination of the bars may be adjusted.

The bars terminate in eyes T through which a line or cable 48 passes, on which line or cable the clothes will be hung. Another line, indicated in dot dash lines at te in Fig. l, may be employed if desired.

The casing and bars forma rotary clothes line support which may be rotated as the clothes are hung on it. -The support may be pulled toward a window so that the clothes can be pinned to the line, and then pushed out away from the building so that the clothes wont hit the building. The clothes are hung on the line 48. The support is moved out along the bar 28 by means of the rod Sill which moves the carriage. As the full weight of the clothes is supported by the tube l5, a support for this tube is necessary.

In order to support the tube i5, a band 563 is secured thereto by a bolt El, and a brace 52 secured to the band between the oriliced ends thereof by this bolt 5i. The other end of the brace is rigidly mounted on a pin 53 which extends into the orice of the boss id and is secured against displacement by a Cotter pin 5d in its bottom.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that when the set screw E8 is loose, the tube l5, and therefore the clothes line and its support, may be rotated about the aligned axes of the pins I6 and 53. Furthermore, when the handle 2li has been turned to loosen the boss 2t from the collar 20, the clothes line and its support may be rotated to a vertical instead of a horizontal position, as' shown in Fig. 8. When the clothes line and its support are vertical, the handle 2d d. may be turned again to lock them in this position, whereupon the tube l5 can be swung to dispose the clothes line and its support adjacent the building wall where it can be locked by means oi the set screw i8.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that a very simple, large capacity and e'lcient clothes line support has been provided which may be disposed in an out of the way position when desired.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 9 and 10, the casing or hub 38 is mounted as at do to the outer end of the square rod 282L whose inner end slides in the tube E9e. The rod 28a has an axial threaded bore 28h with which the threaded portion 6B of a. telescoping shaft 'di coacts to retract and project the rod 28a. The inner end of shaft 6l which is housed within the square bore Zia of tube ma is journaled in a bearing 62 and carries a bevel pinion 63 in mesh with a bevel gear 64 xed to a stud shaft 65 journaled in the walls of the tube, the latter being cut away to accommodate the gear M. The stud shaft 55 carries a handle @6 for rotating the gear G.

The tube I9au and its associated parts are substantially the same as above described and numerals designating like parts, the same being reversed to show an alternate arrangement of the parts. The tube ma fits within sleeve l5 which passes through collar 2li for controlling the rotary adjustment of said tube 59a. The sleeve i5 is mounted on the lower boss le by pin it and the band 55B on sleeve l5 is braced by member 52 which is connected to the upper boss ll by pin 53. In this form of the invention the carriage and yoke are dispensed with and the hub 3S is carried on the end of rod 28a.

While we have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of our invention, it is to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modiiications coming with the scope oi the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A clothes line device comprising a vertical bracket, two vertically spaced orced brackets extending from said vertical bracket, a horizontal outer tube pivotally mounted on said orificed brackets, a tube rotatably mounted inside said outer tube, a collar mounted on said outer tube over a portion oi said inner tube, said collar having a smooth orice, said outer tube having a circumferential slot and said inner tube having a threaded orifice all in line, a handle extending through said collar orice and slot and threadedly connected to said inner tube orice and having a boss adapted to lock against the outer face of said collar, whereby when said boss is unlocked, said inner tube can be rotated in said outer tube, and a clothes line support mounted horizontally on said inner tube and adapted to be swung vertically by said handle.

2. A clothes line device comprising a vertical bracket, two vertically spaced oriced brackets extending from said vertical bracket, a horizontal outer tube pivotally mounted on said oriced brackets, a tube rotatably mounted inside said outer tube, a collar mounted on said outer tube over a portion of said'inner tube, said collar having a smooth orice, said outer tube having a circumferential slot and said inner tube having a threaded orifice all in line, a handle extending through said collar orifice and slot and threadedly connected to said inner tube orifice and having a boss adapted to lock against ther outer face of said collar, whereby when said boss is unlocked, said inner tube can be rotated in said outer tube, a clothes line support mounted horizontally on said inner tube and adapted to beA swung Verically by said handle, and means for moving said clothes line support toward and away from said vertical bracket.

3. A clothes line device comprising a vertical bracket, two vertically spaced orificed brackets extending from said vertical bracket, a horizontal outer tube pivotally mounted on said oriced brackets, a tube rotatably mounted inside said outer tube, a collar mounted on said outer tube over a portion of said inner tube, said collar having a smooth orifice, said outer tube having a circumferential slot, and said inner tube having a threaded orifice all in line, a handle extending through said collar orifice and slot and threadedly connected to said inner tube orifice and having a boss adapted to lock against the outer face of said collar, whereby when said boss is unlocked, said inner tube can be rotated in said outer tube, a clothes line support mounted horizontally on said inner tube and adapted to be swung vertically by said handle, and means lfor locking said outer tube in any rotated position on said oriced brackets. I

4. A rotary clothes line deviceV comprising a vertical bracket having a tube, a horizontal rod extending through the tube, separate means connecting said bracket, tube and rod and adaptmg said rod to swing about a vertical axis and to rotate about its longitudinal axis, 'a carriage slidably mounted on said rod, a rotary clothes line casing having radial bars mounted on said carriage and a clothes line on said bars, whereby said support can be moved toward and away from said bracket and `swung to a vertical posltion about said rod axis and to an out of the Way position about said vertical axis.

5. A clothes line device comprising a tube, means for mounting the tube for pivotal movement about a vertical axis, a rod extending from said tube, a clothes line supporting unit pivoted at the outer end of said rod, a shaft threaded in said rod and extending through said tube and means for revolving said shaft to project and retract said rod with respect to said tube.

6. A clothes line device comprising a tube, means for mounting the tube for rotary movement about a vertical axis, a rod extending from said tube, a clothes line supporting unit pivoted at the outer end of said tube, a shaft threaded in said rod and extending through said tube, means for revolving said shaft to project and retract ,said rod with respect to said tube, and

said rotary mounting means including a sleeve, a collar on the sleeve and a clamping member joining said collar and tube for revolving the latter about a horizontal axis with respect to said sleeve.

'7. A clothes line device comprising a tube, means for mounting the tube for rotary movement about a vertical axis, a rod extending from said tube, a clothes line supporting unit pivoted at the outer end of said tube, a shaft threaded in said rod and extending through said tube, means for revolving said shaft to project and retract said rod with respect to said tube, said rotary mounting means including a sleeve, a collar on the sleeve and a clamping member joining said collar and tube for revolving the latter about a horizontal axis with respect to said sleeve, and said shaft revolving means including a gear combination connected to said shaft and a handle for operating said gear combination.

8. A window clothes drier, comprising a horizontal rod, means for pivotally supporting the inner end of the rod on a building, a carriage supported on the rod for sliding movement, a bolt supported on the carriage in a vertical pendant position, a casing pivotally supported on said bolt, a spring on said bolt for forcing the casing apart from the carriage, a plurality of upwardly and outwardly inclined rods disposed in radial relation to each other on the casing, a clothes line connecting the outer ends of said rods to each other, and a brace for supporting the inner end of the rod rst named constructed to allow horizontal pivotal movement of said rod.

9. A clothes drier, comprising a pair of Vertically spaced brackets having bearings, a rst tube pivotally supported in the lower bearing, a brace connected with said tube and pivotally supported in the upper bearing, a second tube mounted in the rst tube, a rod slidable in said second tube, means for shifting the rod in said second tube, and a clothes drier supported on said rod.

SAM ZINGMAN. JOSEPH KRINICK.

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